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– By Jacklyn Fernandez, RHN
SWEET POTATO: SUPER FOOD
If you only eat sweet potatoes during the holidays when
they’re mushed, smothered in melted marshmallow and
butter until they’re unrecognizable, then you’re
missing out on one of nature’s super foods.
• The sweet potato provides a rich
concentration of nutrients,
and offers antioxidant, antiinflammatory, and disease-fighting
components.
• The orange colour is due to the
carotenoid beta-carotene, which in
many fruits and veggies indicates the
presence of potent antioxidants. These
antioxidants ward off free radicals that
damage